How to Use in poor/bad (etc.) condition in a Sentence

in poor/bad (etc.) condition

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• Shankster said the body was in poor condition due to the warm weather.
  — Anna Turning, NBC News, 23 June 2024
• Stormy nights have taken a toll on the tents, which are already in bad condition.
  — David Feliba, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Besides, their pelts are in bad condition at that time of year, and they are not hunted for food.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2024
• By the group’s scoring system, D means in poor condition and at a strong risk of failure.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 6 July 2024
• Even newer homes and RVs in poor condition can be expensive to haul to a new spot.
  — Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 12 Jan. 2025
• Thirty-five percent said at least one-fourth of their schools were in poor condition.
  — Asia Fields, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
• Thirty-five percent said at least one-fourth of their schools were in poor condition.
  — Asia Fields, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2024
• Based on aerial photos of your home, your roof is in poor condition.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
• Vermont dams Orange dams are the ones in poor condition.
  — Cecilia Garzella, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• At the time of the investigation, 2,402 bridges were in poor condition for the entire state.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes, bags are in bad condition and are wrapped to keep them together.
  — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2024
• Warfieldsburg’s bandwagon must have been in poor condition to take so long to get to Springfield.
  — Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
• According to the amendment, the city has 466 miles of roadway considered to be in poor condition.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
• Forty of Fresno County’s 909 bridges are in poor condition.
  — Devon Milley, Sacramento Bee, 19 June 2024
• Dust storms are common at Burning Man, and renters have been known to return the vehicles in poor condition.
  — Andrea Agostini Ferrer, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
• Moscow lost a large portion of its active-duty tanks early in the war, and many tanks in storage are in poor condition.
  — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023
• The structure, which dates to 1899, was already in poor condition, officials said.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2024
• The alley is in poor condition, but developers are working with the city on coming up with a way to improve it.
  — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
• Alas, a more precise assessment isn’t available as the fossil’s foot bones were in poor condition.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• Still, 40% of metro Detroit freeway pump stations are in poor condition.
  — Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2021
• Some states, counties and county equivalents possess many more of the bridges that are in poor condition than others.
  — June Kim, Scientific American, 23 June 2023
• If Bendix decides to do that — and that’s a big if — the motivation would be to replenish a farm system that the current regime believes is in poor condition.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• In Illinois, corn and soybean crops are also in poor condition, and 20% of soybeans in the entire region are in poor condition.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 20 July 2023
• The dams that collapsed in the hills above the city are believed to have been in poor condition — no match for the unprecedented amount of water that crashed against them in some of the worst flooding in more than a century.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Eight bridges in poor condition cross Nashville's interstates, and six cross railroad tracks.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 17 June 2024
• Of the 13 high-hazard dams in poor condition identified by ICN’s analysis, 11 are in Michigan.
  — Kristoffer Tigue, WIRED, 13 July 2024
• However, if the page is in poor condition, the search engine may not recognize certain words or phrases.
  — Variety, 15 June 2023
• For decades, Louisville has underfunded a majority of its 120 public parks, leaving most in the city's west and south ends in poor condition.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2023
• Road conditions are rapidly deteriorating, with the percentage of roads in poor condition expected to double in two years.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
• Prosecutors often pursue cases in which investigators have seized more than 100 dogs found in poor condition.
  — Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025